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A box junction in London, pictured from atop the Monument in 1969. A box junction is a road traffic control measure designed to prevent congestion and gridlock at junctions.The surface of the junction is typically marked with a yellow criss-cross grid of diagonal painted lines (or only two lines crossing each other in the box), and vehicles may not enter the area so marked unless their exit ...
An electrical junction box (also known as a "jbox") is an enclosure housing electrical connections. [1] Junction boxes protect the electrical connections from the weather , as well as protecting people from accidental electric shocks .
An electrical junction is a point or area where (a) two or more conductors or (b) different semiconducting regions of differing electrical properties make physical contact. [1] Electrical junctions types include thermoelectricity junctions, metal–semiconductor junctions and p–n junctions. Junctions are either rectifying or non-rectifying.
The current entering any junction is equal to the current leaving that junction. i 2 + i 3 = i 1 + i 4. This law, also called Kirchhoff's first law, or Kirchhoff's junction rule, states that, for any node (junction) in an electrical circuit, the sum of currents flowing into that node is equal to the sum of currents flowing out of that node; or equivalently:
This electric field is created from a built-in potential, which arises from the contact potential between the two different materials in the junction. The charge separation between positive holes and negative electrons across the p–n diode yields a forward voltage , the photo voltage , between the illuminated diode terminals, [ 50 ] which ...
Utility box may refer to: A toolbox; Pattress, a box that houses electrical sockets, switches, or other fixtures, also known as an electrical box Junction box, a box that houses electrical connections; Electrical enclosure, a cabinet-sized box housing electrical equipment or connectors Pad-mounted transformer
At the junction of two different semiconductors there is a sharp shift in band energies from one material to the other; the band alignment at the junction (e.g., the difference in conduction band energies) is fixed. At the junction of a semiconductor and metal, the bands of the semiconductor are pinned to the metal's Fermi level.
An ohmic contact is a non-rectifying electrical junction: a junction between two conductors that has a linear current–voltage (I–V) curve as with Ohm's law.Low-resistance ohmic contacts are used to allow charge to flow easily in both directions between the two conductors, without blocking due to rectification or excess power dissipation due to voltage thresholds.